Mestiz@ Scripts, Digital Migrations, and the Territories of Writing

By Damian Baca

Book Overview

Conventional scholarship on written communication positions the Western alphabet as a precondition for literacy. Thus, pictographic, non-verbal writing practices of Mesoamerica remain obscured by representations of lettered speech. This book examines how contemporary Mestiz@ scripts challenge alphabetic dominance, thereby undermining the colonized territories of "writing." Strategic weavings of Aztec and European inscription systems not only promote historically-grounded accounts of how recorded information is expressed across cultures, but also speak to emerging studies on "visual/multimodal" education. Baca-Espinosa argues that Mestiz@ literacies advance "new" ways of reading and writing, applicable to diverse classrooms of the twenty-first century.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349372692
• ISBN13: 9781349372690
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Chicana & Mesoamerican Rhetorics

This text is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students/faculty in Rhetoric, Composition, English, Chicano/a Studies, American Indian & Mesoamerican Studies, and Postcolonial Studies.